CURRENT DIRECT

Swappable Container Waterborne Transport Battery

A shift towards clean energy is a difficult but necessary task for the transport sector, which is responsible for a quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions. This creates a specific challenge for the waterborne transport field, where, according to prognosis, emissions will increase rapidly, thus hindering the goals of the Paris Agreement. The use of batteries can reverse this trend, but current technology makes them much too expensive. To solve the problem, the EU-funded Current Direct project proposes to develop and demonstrate an innovative lithium-ion cell engineered for waterborne transport. It is based on novel manufacturing techniques that will enable significant cost reduction and fast adoption of methods supporting reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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